@nivo0o0 Amazon is so nailing the frustrations of conference calls with distributed teams in meeting-centric corporate cultures with the video above...i take my life into my own hands everytime i have to punch in a conference call code on the road. Love the positioning.

@aaronsuplizio @nivo0o0 Actually not really, I suspect they stole the idea from these guys: https://www.uberconference.com [see video] and that video is even more demonstrative of typical issues..

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@benln I wonder what % of workforce in that total employment figure is fulfillment/blue collar vs highly-skilled labor/engineering. Latter is probably comparable to GOOG & MSFT. Still though, they are everywhere and AWS continues to fuel their investment.

@emmanuel_lemor @aaronsuplizio @nivo0o0 they stole the idea of easier video conferencing? see also webex, gotomeeting, blue jeans, zoom, lifesize, highfive, joinme, zoho, hangouts, skype and yes, uberconference (which i use).

@hadifarnoud 🤖

@rasmus1610 😄

@hkhalidz Wait, you can't believe Amazon doesn't care about UX?

@hkhalidz Yeah! There are too many sub-windows and popups. The "Running late" feature is nifty though.

@austinstorm Believing a company cares about something is totally different from delivering a great user experience. The current UX for Chime feels as if it was designed by a machine not human. There's too many moving parts and the user journey is not straight forward. It too me a few minutes just to signup for the tool. Mind you, I am a technical person. How long do you think it would take a nontechnical person to use this? Now, does that mean Amazon is a bad company when it comes to UX, no not at all. In fact, Amazon has released some great products over the years. But this one is not one of them.

@billey_b Somebody needs to compete with Zoom. Cannot stand having to use it all the time.

@billey_b it says 100 on the website. But it's limited to just 2 people for both Basic and Plus plans, which I find odd.

@billey_b ?? "Video meetings for up to 100 people"

@timmywahba Multi device screen sharing is where I'm excited... but I tried it and was underwhelmed. Especially the part about not being available via mobile app.

@nassaraf @timmywahba "You can also allow remote control of a screen share for richer collaboration." →Pretty sick! -It's almost like Amazon combined everything everyone loves about Rabbit, Google Hangouts, Skype, Zoom, etc.,

@thatadamguy How can you be happy with Google Hangout as a serious business solution? :/ yes, I get you have drunk the cool-aid ;) lol

@thatadamguy If you are with Google, you sound like the person I need to talk to. Hangouts used to be great 3 years ago, but it seems like Google just forgot about it. We have been using Hangouts on Air to record our podcast over that time. The updates are weak, and they are stripping away useful features, like sound effects, in April. You have to search hard to find out where to start an Hangout on Air on YouTube now. We switched to Blab because we were fed up with GHO, then they shut down with almost no warning. I would love a video service that can record your chat, is easy for people to join, and has reliability. I work in education, and teachers need a simple solution to deliver professional development. I am on the lookout for any new tool that can do this.

@jonsamuelson :\ sorry for the frustration on multiple fronts! I don't work on anything Hangouts related at Google (I'm on the Travel Products team, the group trying to get the world to meet face to face :p), but I'm optimistic about the future of Google Hangouts'y stuff and will keep my fingers crossed that you and others will be delighted :).

@francisco_ramos Thanks Francisco, hummm but you still can't find the App, in the App Store if you type: Amazon Chime, fyi.

@emmanuel_lemor @francisco_ramos That is maybe because some geo restrictions. "Amazon Chime" worked for me

Update: I felt the need to remove my upvote. I just expected better product. I'll recommend it again if they address their issues. #newreleaseproblems

@gollyjer I was already unhappy with Zoom coming to the market, more and more such apps mean we corporate ppl can't decide which one to follow. Nowadays, the interactions are, "What time does work for you on Skype or Zoom?" Now it'll be, "What time do we chime/zoom in? Or do we Skype?"

@abdussamit @gollyjer Or you could just use join.me, which is purpose built for working with people outside of your company. No downloads for them, no logins. < 5 seconds they are connected via web. (disclaimer: admittedly biased towards join.me)

@craigdaniel @gollyjer Seems cool to me, pls drop me an e-mail at tayyab.abdussami@gmail.com, I am up for testing it with someone :)

@craigdaniel we're having major screenshare issues on our corporate account. is there anything you suggest that reduces the choppiness/lag we're dealing with? Our WiFi runs about 400 Mbps up and 400 Mbps down in each of our four offices across the country so it's definitely not a speed issue.

@gflandre that was my assumption.

@alex_shin I'd assume simply because they can? They're building out their networking portfolio (with some of their more ambitions projects) so why not create the software to manage these networks? I mean, with AWS they're more than set up to build Chime into something with plugins for everyone.